Poem Analysis of No Depth That's Meant by Lawrence S. Pertillar for close reading

This is an analysis of the poem No Depth That's Meant that begins with:

Detected and suspected,
To have no depth that's meant....

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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Rhyme scheme: ABCB ABCB XABCB DABCB Xdba ABCB ABCB DXABCB ABABABCB EBB EBBXEBBBEB
Stanza lengths (in strings): 4,4,5,5,4,4,4,6,8,3,10,
Closest metre: iambic trimeter
Сlosest rhyme: alternate rhyme
Сlosest stanza type: tercets
Guessed form: unknown form
Metre: 0101010 011111 11000111 110110 0101010 011111 11000111 110110 1001001101 10101010 011111 11000111 110110 1011011001 10101010 011111 11000111 110110 1001001101 001011011001 1001011011 1010101010101 0101010 011111 11000111 110110 0101010 011111 11000111 110110 1011011001 11001001101 0101010 011111 11000111 110110 0101010 011111 0101010 011111 0101010 011111 11000111 110110 101 111 10111101 101 111 10111101 101 111 10111101 10111101 101 111
Amount of stanzas: 12
Average number of symbols per stanza: 137
Average number of words per stanza: 24
Amount of lines: 57
Average number of symbols per line: 28 (strings are less long than medium ones)
Average number of words per line: 5
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; and, having, no, depth, meant are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word having is repeated.
The author used the same words detected, having at the beginnings of some neighboring stanzas. The figure of speech is a kind of anaphora.
There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines meant is repeated).
The poet repeated the same words content, meant at the end of some neighboring stanzas. The poetic device is a kind of epiphora.

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No Depth That's Meant by Lawrence S. Pertillar: poem analysis

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